I'm finished, " I announced to my husband late last week. Always appearing a bit skeptical when I make such announcements, he said, "With me, or what?" Of course, I had to say not with him, not with our fiftieth wedding anniversary coming up--I mean why would I trade down when we have a good …
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What were you doing when you were fourteen? Planning a wedding? I thought not. When I was fourteen, I was in the ninth grade and just beginning to get interested in boys. Living near a grove dense with pine trees, my neighbor friends and I would nestle down on a carpet of pine needles and …
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"You don't need to be in the health care industry or education to like it," writes Becky Povich, the tour host for this last stop, in her short and sweet review of Caring Lessons: A Professor's Journey of Faith and Self. Last week Wednesday, I introduced you to Becky's blog, her prolific writing, and her …
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Chynna Laird gets it. She understands my passion for nursing and mental health nursing. In fact, it is her passion to help children and families living with special needs, "especially those living with Sensory Processing Disorder (SPD) and bipolar disorder." Chynna is the tour host today for Caring Lessons. I can tell she "gets it" …
Continue reading Caring Lessons / WOW Blog Tour – Stop #13 – More about Mental Ilness
A tranquil place to contemplate the meaning of Easter is the famed Graceland Cemetery in Chicago. Opened in 1860, it consists of 119 acres of "pastoral landscape" in the heart of the north side. Graceland is the final resting place for both ordinary and prominent citizens, including Cyrus McCormick, inventor of the reaper, and George …
"Changing Minds about Mental Illness" is a topic close to my heart. For a few reasons why, read my guest post on this tour's site today. Also, please read this short essay to find out what you can do to help individuals living with mental illness and their families. If you're a writer and interested …
Continue reading Caring Lessons / WOW Blog Tour – Stop #12 – Changing Minds about Mental Ilness
Two in one day??? Yes, there are two blog tour stops today. The tour will be over a week from today, so savor this opportunity to discover the blogs of these varied and interesting book-loving women. This afternoon's blogger, Audry Feyer, is a woman after my own heart. She lives with a John Deere fanatic! …
Today, I'm all about being an older woman who wears purple, albeit with no red hat on my head, and who is thankful for my long-term friendship with Marianna, a person with whom I've walked many miles of fun and silliness and tanked in hard-to-fathom-at-the-time sorrows. So for today's Caring Lessons blog tour, when I …
Continue reading Caring Lessons / WOW Blog Tour – Stop #10 / Hot Fudge Friends
Are you almost finished writing your book? Are you dreading the thought of marketing? Do you need tips to save your sanity about how to handle your tub-full of books when they arrive? I'm not the little piggie that went to market, but I am the piggie that stayed home and planned, down to minute …
Continue reading Caring Lessons / WOW Blog Tour – Stop #9 / Ten Things I Learned on My Way to Market
Are you an empty nester? Are you trying to lose weight? These are just a few of the fun things that Pam Lofton, the host of this blog tour, writes about on her blog, Empty Nest. Her review of Caring Lessons nails what my friend Marianna and I were hoping when we began writing our …
Continue reading Caring Lessons / WOW Blog Tour – Stop #8 – Giveaway Copies
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